From d7b8bcb0a0819315a51cae620ff7ae0c1704c069 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Tokarev Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:02:37 +0400 Subject: [SCSI] modalias for scsi devices The following patch adds support for sysfs/uevent modalias attribute for scsi devices (like disks, tapes, cdroms etc), based on whatever current sd.c, sr.c, st.c and osst.c drivers supports. The modalias format is like this: scsi:type-0x04 (for TYPE_WORM, handled by sr.c now). Several comments. o This hexadecimal type value is because all TYPE_XXX constants in include/scsi/scsi.h are given in hex, but __stringify() will not convert them to decimal (so it will NOT be scsi:type-4). Since it does not really matter in which format it is, while both modalias in module and modalias attribute match each other, I descided to go for that 0x%02x format (and added a comment in include/scsi/scsi.h to keep them that way), instead of changing them all to decimal. o There was no .uevent routine for SCSI bus. It might be a good idea to add some more ueven environment variables in there. o osst.c driver handles tapes too, like st.c, but only SOME tapes. With this setup, hotplug scripts (or whatever is used by the user) will try to load both st and osst modules for all SCSI tapes found, because both modules have scsi:type-0x01 alias). It is not harmful, but one extra module is no good either. It is possible to solve this, by exporting more info in modalias attribute, including vendor and device identification strings, so that modalias becomes something like scsi:type-0x12:vendor-Adaptec LTD:device-OnStream Tape Drive and having that, match for all 3 attributes, not only device type. But oh well, vendor and device strings may be large, and they do contain spaces and whatnot. So I left them for now, awaiting for comments first. Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev Signed-off-by: James Bottomley --- include/scsi/scsi.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/scsi/scsi.h') diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi.h b/include/scsi/scsi.h index 5c0e9791441c..9f8f80ab0c8b 100644 --- a/include/scsi/scsi.h +++ b/include/scsi/scsi.h @@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ static inline int scsi_status_is_good(int status) /* * DEVICE TYPES + * Please keep them in 0x%02x format for $MODALIAS to work */ #define TYPE_DISK 0x00 -- cgit v1.2.3